Word: field
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers and mourners. They buried last year's pennant beneath a cardboard tombstone back of the center-field fence...
...Pittsburgh, far from the pennant hubbub, baseball fans were experiencing another kind of emotional turmoil. They had nothing but scorn for the impotent Pirates (who were 28 games out of first place), but they kept paying their way into Forbes Field to gaze, with the dewy-eyed reverence of Babylonian idol worshipers, upon big, amiable, good-looking Ralph McPherram Kiner. There was no doubt in any Pittsburgher's mind that easy-going Ralph was the biggest man in big-league baseball...
...Babe Ruth? Against Boston's right-handed Bill Voiselle, Right-hander Kiner picked a fat curve and put his 195 Ibs. into an easy, carefully grooved swing. The ball cleared the left-field fence for home run No. 51. Three innings later, he put No. 52 in the same place. To Pittsburghers, who head for the exits the moment Kiner has taken his last turn at bat, even Babe Ruth's record mark of 60 (in 1927) still seemed within Kiner's reach...
...sailed through all the storms of church & state since the days of Richard II. By building character as well as learning into the make-up of its students (the school motto: "Manners maketh man"), Winchester has turned out a share of statesmen (including Sir Stafford Cripps) and military men (Field Marshal Earl Wavell) as well as literary lights (18th Century Poet Laureate William Whitehead), businessmen and barristers...
...General Electric Co., and for the last three years dean of Vanderbilt University's law school, Coffman had good reason to be happy at his big premiere. As its chief academic attraction he had persuaded Roscoe Pound, retired dean of the Harvard Law School and revered in the field of jurisprudence, to serve as "visiting professor" at U.C.L.A. (Because he is 78 and far past U.C.L.A.'s retirement age, Pound signed up only on a year-to-year basis.) With Pound's assistance, U.C.L.A. expects to make its law library "one of the finest and most complete...